Turning fractions into decimals
Write -3/4 as a decimal.
-0.75
Sarah baked a cake and cut it into 8 equal slices. She ate 3 slices and gave the rest to her friends. what decimal represents the proportion of the cake that Sarah ate?
0.375 of cake Sarah ate
Write 2/9 as a decimal.
0.2 repeating
At a pizza party a large pizza is divided into 10 equal slices. If 7 slices are eaten, what decimal represents the portion of pizza that was eaten?
0.7 of the pizza was eaten
write -3/7 as a decimal. (round to the tenths place)
-0.43
Emily is baking cookies for a school event. The recipe calls for 3/4 cup of sugar and 0.5 cup of butter. After mixing the ingredients, she realizes she needs to double the recipe to make enough cookies for everyone. If Emily only has 1.25 cups of butter, will she have enough to double the recipe? If not how much more butter does she need?
Yes, Emily has enough butter. She'll have .25 cups of butter left.
write -1/33 as a decimal. (round tenths)
0
In her science class, Monica watched an insect crawl 3 1/6 inches in one minute. The next minute the insect crawled 2 3/4. How far did the insect crawl in total.
5 11/12 inches
write 7/32 as a decimal. (round to the tenths)
0.2
A carpenter bought a piece of wood 4.6 m long. Then he cut off 1.3 m (repeating) off the end. How long is the piece of wood now? (Keep the answer in fraction form)
3 4/15 meters